Hidden Sins Part III

“You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you”.   Prov. 28:13  GNT

Our “will” is the power by which the mind makes choices and then acts to carry them out.   At first a person engages in some forbidden pleasure because they want to, but if they keep going back to it, they soon find that they have no strength to resist it.  They have no will power to resist and a battle between right and wrong engulfs.

Once a thought or act becomes a habit, it is a short step to a necessity.  The old adage is true: “Sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny”.

You will reap with you sow…….good or bad fruit.     People can look at your life and see the type of fruit you are producing: good or rotten fruit.   They will be able to see how much or lack of Jesus reigns in your heart.   There will be evidence of change: good or bad.  They will see Christ emerging or no growth…...a stale…..decaying life.    Your life will be just like it was last week, last month, last year …..No change!

Hidden sins will prevent growth in Christ; consequently there will be no change: just an increase in deception, lies and denial.

A person harboring hidden sins learns how to play the “game” of Christianity by the greatest teacher himself, Satan.

   

“I wish my head were a well of water,
      and my eyes a fountain of tears,
   so that I could cry day and night
      for my people who have been killed.
 I wish I had a place to stay in the desert
      where I could get away from my people.
   They are all unfaithful,
      a mob of traitors.
  They are always ready to tell lies;
      dishonesty instead of truth rules the land.

   The Lord says, “My people do one evil thing after another
      and do not acknowledge me as their God.

  Everyone must be on guard against their friends,
      and no one can trust their relatives;
   for all relatives are as deceitful as Jacob,
      and everyone slanders their friends.

 They all mislead their friends,
      and no one tells the truth;
   they have taught their tongues to lie
      and will not give up their sinning.

   They do one violent thing after another,
      and one deceitful act follows another.

   The Lord says that his people reject him”.  Jer. 9:1-6  GNT